I'm thinking about switching to Excelsior

[MKRainn]

MKR,

I am certain that you meant well, but I think you are (however inadvertently) treading a fine line here between providing appropriate, applicable, and timely advice; and providing free advertising for a private, for-profit business.

CollegePlus charges $2500 per year to provide the kind of support and advice which can be easily obtained here for free. I understand that you, and some other members are making use of this service, and feel it is a worthwhile investment. But the way you worded your message could be confusing to some of our members. It almost seems to infer that CollegePlus is an ALTERNATIVE to a college such as Excelsior, that the "tuition" is cheap and INSTEAD of paying various fees and costs to Excelsior (or any other college), and that CollegePlus provides some kind of quicker and easier path to earning a degree than can be achieved without their services. However, it HAS to be noted that CollegePlus is not a college, it cannot award college credit, and does not grant degrees. The $2500 per year in fees are in addition to any fees paid to an actual college and on top of any exam or college course costs. I would argue that equally effective advice can be had for free, equally helpful advisement about which exams/courses to take can readily be obtained, feedback and recommendations about appropriate study resources and exam content can be gleaned without much difficulty, and moral support and encouragement every step of the way is available right here ALL FOR FREE. Whether these same services provided by CollegePlus, for such a high fee, are worthwhile, necessary, or even advisable, remains both debatable and controversial amongst the members of this board.

I just want to make sure that nobody becomes confused as to what the CollegePlus web site is actually offering for the price they are charging, that nobody is misled into thinking that CollegePlus REPLACES the need to enroll in a college degree program, and that we don't slip too far into the "advertisement" zone when recommending their services to newer members of this message board.

Thank you,
Snazzlefrag

I'm so sorry! I didn't mean it that way! Apperantly I don't know what Excelsior is. CollegePlus is just that, a college..which I don't own.(I'm only 14 for crying out loud!) For the first year, you get a coach that helps you and guides you through studying for CLEP exams and tells you what you'll need and things like that. (it's kinda like this site, but only more personal and with different information)Then when you get 60 credits, you transfer over to Thomas Jefferson State. I don't know if that cleared up anything or if I was selling it again..

What is Excelsior?